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Issue 106, Spring 1988

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  • Fiction

    • Thomas Glynn

      Apondé, the Magnificent Times Two

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      The Prophet Elijah

    • Charlie Smith

      from Shine Hawk

    • David Foster Wallace

      Little Expressionless Animals

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      The Art of Fiction No. 102

    • Marguerite Yourcenar

      The Art of Fiction No. 103

  • Poetry

    • S. Ben-Tov

      The Foucault Pendulum at Hanover

    • João Cabral de Melo Neto

      The Word Silk

    • Tom Disch

      The Dirt and the Willow

    • Florence Elon

      Place Not Taken

    • Daniel Mark Epstein

      The Rivals

    • Irving Feldman

      Street Scene

    • Thom Gunn

      Sacred Heart

    • Thom Gunn

      Words for Some Ash

    • James Laughlin

      Ten Poems

    • David Lehman

      Mythologies

    • William Logan

      Haddocks' Eyes

    • Christopher Logue

      from The Iliad

    • Alice Mattison

      During the Night

    • Lynne McMahon

      Dog Days

    • Cynthia Nadelman

      Two Poems

    • Umberto Saba

      Three Poems

    • Jim Powell

      Housekeeping

    • Donald Revell

      Why History Imitates God

    • Betsy Rosenberg

      Bird Song

    • Hugh Seidman

      Three Poems

    • Terese Svoboda

      The Root of Mother is Moth

    • David Trinidad

      Hand Over Heart

    • John Updike

      Klimt and Schiele Confront the Cunt

    • Marjorie Welish

      Greeting

  • Feature

    • Jeffery Donaldson

      An Exchange

    • George Kane

      Two Contemporary East German Poets: Ulrich Berkes and Steffen Mensching

    • William Styron

      Family Album

    • William Carlos Williams

      Correspondence with His Publisher

  • Notice

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      Notice

  • Art

    • Mike Starn

      Portraits

    • Donald Sultan

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